F A C U L T Y COMPENSA TI ONCoUege of Arts and Sciences as well.Economics chairman David Guilkey, amember of the chanceUor's committee,says a salary survey of economics depart-ments at 15 public universities placedCarolina next to last. "We're not talkingabout comparing to Duke, Harvard orYale; we're talking about state schools,"Guilkey says. "Ifyou look at the latestNational Research Council ranking ofdepartn'lents, of the 14 schools that rankabove us, we are ranked higher than halfof them in terms of reputation. In somefor the special Kenan seats fell $25,000 to$40,000 below comparable endowed posi-tions offered by other institutions. "Wewere talking about $140,000 maximumthat was supposed to be salary and a researchstipend. You cannot touch a top-of-the-line economist for that kind ofmoney."While the need for more resourcestouches every corner ofthe campus, thepay gap stretches the widest in the naturalsciences because the salary shortfalls arecompounded by antiquated research facil-ities, a key ingredient in the recruitingmix when a university triesto attract a research scientist.Tom Clegg, who recentlyended a decade as chairnlanofthe physics and astronomydepartment, said full professorsin the department have neverfringe benefits of the top four [public]schools is 23 percent of total compensa-tion," Richardson says. "We are at 19percent, so we are not competitive withthe top institutions. We've got to supple-ment our fringes in order to break downthat wall. This is included in the u.s.News and World R eport rankings. Oneplace where we fall short, for example, isthat we don't have sabbaticals." ThechanceUor's conunittee report touchedon the need to beef up benefits butfocused primarily on the salaries issue.Many faculty members who remain areresisting repeated opportunities to go else-where for larger salaries. Joseph DeSimone,professor of chelnistry, says he has stayedin Chapel Hill despite offers from MIT,UC-Santa Barbara, Illinois and a numberofother schools. He has turned down(You couple the infrastructure issues with thequality offaculty, and you start negativelyimpacting both aspects. VlIe're really onborrowed time regarding thequality of this institution.'JOSEPH DESIMONEsense, UNC is getting a bargain. But thebottom line is that this salary study wassent to the other schools, so they knowwhat our salaries are, and it's increasinglydifficult to retain your faculty."

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